Likewise, clas rank (if your school does it, or otherwise a general knowledge of GPA distribution at your school by the colleges) will also make a differance: a 3.8 reads very differently to adcoms if it puts you in the top 5% of your class vs. the top 20%.
An employee's gross pay is the amount of his wages before any deductions, including taxes and benefits. Gross pay may be determined by the amount an employee works, as in hourly pay, or at a set rate, as in a weekly salary.
Gross Pay. Gross pay represents the total amount paid by a company to its employees. Gross pay does not take into account any pretax deductions or other exemptions from income. For example, if your company pays an employee $4,000 each month, the employee's gross wages for the year equal $48,000.